Turbocharged rodents!

[Burnerman]

This is the second vehicle in this year with a turbo to intercooler pipe chewed through......including the sound deadening mat consumed from under the bonnet
No accounting for dietary preference!
John

 

[Mursal]

It must be mechanically minded, when it knows the different air pipes?
Mate got his Octavia wiring loom chewed, so it must want to be a spark .....

 

[Dave54]

That sound deadening mat is particularly tasty I find!
It usually has a nice dressing of 5W-40 too. Yum!

I garage mine (car not rat! ), and there's an electronic rodent deterrent thing in there. Did see some sign before I fitted that, (not chewing fortunately!) but non so far after fitting.

We had rats as big as cats at the steelworks (OK small cats but still big rats!). Nice diet of leftover sandwiches. They used to get in the cable tunnels where the hydrofluoric acid leaked off one of the pickle plants. They used to lose all their fur and look like mutants.

 

[chainsaw_masochist]

What is the material of the said pipe, John?

 

[Burnerman]

The first one was a rubber pipe with internal reinforcement - a bit like a heavy duty radiator hose.....that was a Nissan Note 1.5 dci.
The latest was a Mitsubishi L200 truck and this one had a tough rubber hose with a sort of nylon lattice reinforcement on the outside.....fairly heavy duty stuff!
Said rodent on this one had also chewed through the turbo actuator pipe plus an EGR one too....to say the vehicle was down on power was an understatement!
John

 

[chainsaw_masochist]

Well this is what a rat did to a friend's plastic central heating pipes a while ago. Note via the large hole you can see a smaller hole the other side. It is as though the rodent has had a taster and then got stuck in for the main course and, to cap that, he has scarcely been deterred by hot water that presumably p*ssed out when teeth met plastic.

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Not surprised then that your vehicle's pipework have been similarly savaged. I guess both vehicles are garaged?

 

[Burnerman]

The vehicles are all outside, funnily enough!
All have had the under bonnet material chewed but only one with the turbo pipe! The L200 belongs to a neighbour.
Awesome pics of the CH pipes I haven't come across that before but I have seen electric cables stripped bare....but no sign of the dead rodent!
John

 

[Dave54]

Weird that they some to be attracted to chewing some stuff but not others. The turbo pipe could be because they're worried about Nitrogen Dioxide emissions I suppose.
I suspect that the missing rat corpse by the cables is due to his pals noshing his corpse John.
They're very practical about that sort of thing.
I had mice in the workshop, and they chewed some of the tool handles. Realised it was the ones I'd polished with linseed oil.
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[Burnerman]

Weird that they some to be attracted to chewing some stuff but not others. The turbo pipe could be because they're worried about Nitrogen Dioxide emissions I suppose.
I suspect that the missing rat corpse by the cables is due to his pals noshing his corpse John.
They're very practical about that sort of thing.
I had mice in the workshop, and they chewed some of the tool handles. Realised it was the ones I'd polished with linseed oil.
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Urrrgh that's put me right off my pizza Dave......bet you're right though!
John

 

[Peter.N.]

I opened the bonnet of my XM after it had been standing for a while and found quite a winter store of hazel nuts inside.

Mice got into my sons Capri through the air vents and ate his dashboard.

Peter

 

[Dave54]

I opened the bonnet of my XM after it had been standing for a while and found quite a winter store of hazel nuts inside.

Mice got into my sons Capri through the air vents and ate his dashboard.

Peter

Is "Mice Ate My Dashboard" the British answer to that Mothers Of Invention album "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" I wonder.

Mice got into out caravan and burgered the awning chewing and peeing everywhere. Little sods!